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The Atchison Champion, Ewing Her bert's paper, will be issued hereafter on the profit-sharing plan. Miss Helen Bond, a prominent socie ty lady and daughter of Thomas L. Bond, a well-known attorney of Sab lina, is dead of injuries sustained by a fall from a chair. A. B. Hedrick, 1 Chanute lumber dealer and one of the city’s wealthiest men, committed suicide in his office. No cause is known for the deed. He was a prominent G. A. R. man, Gov. Stanley paid out $19.20 In tolls to send a cable message to Fred Fun ston at Manila, “Accept congratula tions,” ‘The administration critics will not neglect to point out that Mr. Stan ley might have saved $9.60 by eliminat ing the word “accept.” After a debate in the Texas house of representatives, covering a period of a part of the sessions for four days, the resolution offered extolling Gen. Funston for his bravery and congrat ulating him on the capture of Aguinal do was defeated by a vote of 68 wayes to 36 ayes. Prof. W. E. Grey, principal of a col ored school in Atchison, is organizing an Industrial school on the Pingree plan. Prof. Grey will secure all the vacant lots in the city and put the members of his school to work on them.esides this the boys will take contracts for tending lawns, etc. The Atchison County Veteran league, which includes all soldiers who have served in the United States army or navy, was organized at Atchison last week. The object of the league is to further political influence on the in terests of veterans. It is proposed to extend the order over Kansas. Mrs. Ivy Taylor, a young wife, jumped from the Kansas avenue bridge into the Kaw river at Armour dale and was drowned before help reached her. She was partially insane and threw herself into the stream to shut off forever an imagined prospect of misery for a child soon to be born. The state of Kansas has put a bounty of $10 ton on sugar beets to encourage their growth. Western Kan sas farmers who raise beets will plant a large acreage this year. There is a sale for beets at Rocky Ford, Co., and the bounty will pay the freight to that point. Sugar beets pay from $45 to 875 an acre. A dispatch from Fort Scott says that active steps are being taken to secure the pardon of Cora Frost, who made the statement incriminating her self in order to secure the conviction of her father. The girl was, through some technicality, sent to the peni tentiary, but It is thought that she will soon be pardoned out. Congressman Long, in a recent in terview at Wichita, declared that Adjt. Gen. Corbin was openly antagonistic’ to the appointment of Funston to a brigadier generalship in the regular army, Corbin is quoted as saying: “Funston is a boss scout—that is all, I am making leutenants out of better stuff than Funston every day.” From the Kansas City Star, Fred Funston's salary as brigadier general is $5,500 a year. His Kansas admirers who are dooming him for office should remember that there are only three places within the gift of the people is good in the one he already has: State printer, coucil inspector and county attorney In a “wide open” county. Delegates from the literary, scien tific and musical clubs of the Fourth congressional district were In session at Council Grove last week. A district federation club was formed with Mra. T. H. Morehouse, of Council Grove, president; Miss Florence Snow, of Neosho Falls, secretary; Mrs. Ida Tre win, of Emporia, treasurer, and Mra. A. W. Pennison, of Eldorado, auditor. Attorney General Godard will insti tute contests before the register and receiver of the United States land of fice at Wakeeney to pust the squatters who have taken up claims on the Fort Hayes military reservation, recently ceded to the state by congress. His ground of contest will be that the minstters are capitalists and not on the land to make homes, but to make money. Representative John Francis, of Al ten county, a member of the legisla tive tax revision commission, said in a recens interview: “I think there should be a county assessor who would place a valuation on all prop erty in both city and county. I am confident the mercantile interests of Kanaas are not paying their full share of taxes. In most cities the merchants pay taxes on not more than 10 to 10 per cent, of the stock which they carry.” Representative Long, of Kanner, saw the president and thanked him to the name of the Kanuna delegation for the honor conferred upon Gen. Fun ston in his appointment on brigadier general in the regular army. Mr. Long said the appointment, in his opinion, was fully deserved and would prove very popular with the people of the entire country. Gov. Stenley wired
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Baxter Springs, Kansas, US
Sat, Apr 13, 1901
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